Abe the Wizard - Chapter 115

Chapter 115

Chapter 115: Fireball
Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales

It was the ninth day after learning the “fireball” spell . Whilst lifting a finger in his right hand, Abel began drawing the spell pattern at an extremely slow pace . It took him two minutes to finish drawing, but he was sure that he could make his very first spell .

Finally, the pattern was finished, and Abel began to chant the spell . He spoke out in the noble tongue of the elves, “O the passionate elf of fire; please lend me your strength! O the element of fire, under the command of the elf, you shall become an indestructible ball of flame!”

The pattern began to glow . At this moment, a dark golden light flashed from the Horadric Cube and reflected on the ‘fireball’ spell pattern . Just when he wanted to know what happened, the ‘fireball’ spell pattern started burning towards its inside, and a fireball was slowly formed . Abel felt the hot temperature of the fireball, flung his hands quickly, and threw it to the ground not far from where he was standing .

Boom .

Abel didn’t pay too much attention to the power of the “fireball . ” He was more interested in what the Horadric Cube’s response was . This cube was everything for him, so every little change mattered to him .

He pressed it over the illuminated shadow of the Horadric Cube . The Horadric Cube was enlarged in front of Abel’s eyes . The 12 spaces remained unchanged . Everything he’s put inside was still there . The Tome of Town Portal was still inside and was taking up three slots of the cube . The portal bag was taking up one slot, and the private storage box was taking up four slots .

There was something else, though . Abel noticed that there was a small fireball logo next to the combine button . As he focused his power of the Will towards it, a message began to pop up:

[Fireball

Description: Create magical fire arrows

Mana cost: 2 . 5

Current skill level: 0

Fire damage: 2-5

Progress to level 1: 1/5000]

This was just like inside the game . Since Abel could release up to four ‘fireball’ spells, his total mana capacity was only 10 . And just what in the world was that last part of the message?

1/5000? That’s 4999 more fireballs before he could level up . How much time would he have to spend on that?

If Abel had ten mp (mana points) in total, he would have to mediate after every four fireballs . And for every 20 mediations he’s had, he would have to take a rest before his head starts hurting . If it took 10 minutes for him to recharge his mana with meditation, it would take 3 hours for him to meditate 20 times . If he was to include the time he would need to take a break, he would have to spend 5 hours to practice fireball 80 times .

And if he was to scrape off his meditation training and not have any sleep at tall, he could do a total of 200 fireballs in a single day . That’s 25 days in total to shoot 5000 fireballs . No wonder Sam was practicing just one type of spell . His goal was to become an official wizard, and he didn’t have much time to learn any other spells .

Abel’s math was actually right . There were still some things he hadn’t taken into account, however . Because of how dense the mana was in the Rogue’s Encampment, it would only take 10 minutes for him to recover his mp fully . The same process would take up to 20 minutes inside the magic tower and would take longer after ranking up .

So, even the simplest spells would take a lot of time to practice . That’s why a lot of wizards didn’t participate in quest and combat . Even if they weren’t taking part in either one of these activities, they would still spend most of their time inside laboratories than learning spells .

Anyway, Abel got his first spell . Although the preparation time was far too long, he was still happy with his progress . As he took a few steps forward, he went to see how the ‘fireball’ spell had affected the ground .

“What the… . ”

Abel found a bit of stone hit by the “fireballs” on the ground . After cleaning up all the dirt and dust, a small teleportation portal appeared before him .

“It’s a waypoint!”

This was what Abel was searching for this whole time . This was the travel point between various regions in the Rogue’s Encampment . There were nine stations in the Rogue’s Encampment, which corresponded to the nine regions within the area .

Abel lowered his body . There was a 2-square-meters circle of quaint stones with two grooves at each one of its ends . He looked at the empty grooves . There was no energy to activate them .

He took out two ordinary diamonds from the portal bag and put them in the grooves . Both grooves flashed white light at the same time, and then the white light was starting glowing along with the groove patterns . Just when Abel thought that the teleportation station was about to be activated, he heard a “crack” coming from inside the grooves . The two ordinary diamonds he put in had just exploded .

This waypoint required a lot more energy than what ordinary gems could hold . Abel had a lot of perfect gems with him . Since he’s got the portal bag before coming to Bakong City, he’s combined a lot of various gems and had them all safely stored inside the bag .

He took out two more perfect diamonds and put them into the two grooves . This time, the white light flicker for a bit . All the lines on the stone surface started to glow, and then disappeared slowly, leaving only the two grooves shimmering .

Abel stood on top of the waypoint and thought of the places he could go to . Actually, since only this waypoint was activated, he would have to go to the other locations on foot to activate the portals .

Abel turned to look at the hourglass . There was not much time left . He needed to leave here after two hours . He was looking outside the Rogue’s Encampment . He’s suddenly had another idea . He could use the “fireball” spell now . Why not test it on a wild quill rat?

As he went past the barricade outside the gate, Abel entered the Blood More once more . As he was a lot more careful this time, it took him about ten minutes before he found another quill rat from inside the bush .

The quill rat noticed him as well . A long spike was shot at him, but he was able to deflect it with his hand . After deflecting the spike, he put down the visor on his helmet . This way, the quill rat could no longer do any damage to him .

Abel’s right-hand finger began to swipe in the air . When his finger just started to swipe, the Horadric Cube on his right arm began to flash out a dark golden light . Two options began to pop out inside Abel’s head . He could choose to use his skill tree to synergize the “fireball,” or he could choose not to .

So that’s what the fireball symbol on the Horadric Cube was . It was a skill tree for him to boost up his ability . With that in mind, Abel chose “yes” inside his mind, and a fireball began to emerge from his hand . He didn’t even chant out the spells while this was happening .

Abel was screaming as the fireball was literally cooking his hand . He was shocked to see how the fireball charged up so quickly but quickly came to his senses after realizing how hot it was .

Abel threw the fireball towards the quill rat . While it was screaming painfully, the fireball had burnt about half of its body into ash . It didn’t die, though, as it kept on shooting spikes towards Abel .

Abel was preparing to attack the quill rat for the second time . This time, he thought about using a ‘fireball’ with his fingers extended . As he did so, a ‘fireball’ pattern appeared in front of his fingers and shot out the flame towards the rat’s head .

A dark shadow floated on the corpse of the quill rat and was absorbed by the Horadric Cube . Abel wasn’t sure what going on here, but he knew that it was harmless for him .

Abel unfastened the armor on his arm . He looked at the ‘fireball’ logo in the block of Horadric Cube and focused his power of the Will on it . He was now 4997 fireballs aways from getting to the next level .